Now wait just a minute, njrickmarlowe, you 236,688 word . . . wordsmith! (BTW, that number is pretty impressive). But 6800 words is trifling? Well, I never! Then again, maybe I have.
I was obviously oblivious (is that not some sort of an oxymoron?) to all these statistical things, never having known they even existed, until you and canadianspankee brought it to my attention. Now that I am looking at it, I see that there were only 264 stories in the 6,000-7,000 word range. There were at least 15,800 documents with LESS words, and less than 635 stories (even if mine was 264th in the 6000-7000 range, which is statistically unlikely). This puts me somewhere in the 75-80th percentile. So, my 6,800 word effort is not too shabby – as far as length goes anyway.
And since this is a shameless plug board, and not a statistical analysis class, I call your attention to two other stories I've written: "You Bet Your Ass," which is over 17,000 words, and A "Tail Of Growing Up, Volumes 1 and 2," which together equal over 20,000 words (with Volume 3 soon to come). My point is . . . well I don't really have a point, I initially was just trying to figure out a unique way to plug my "Epic Tail of Ridiculous Proportions Story." And now you've given me the opportunity to plug two other stories, so thank you! I also call your attention to the possibility that my word counts are kept low (as opposed to other authors, like those who have, oh I don't know, let's say 236,688 words), because I am such a good editor of my own work. I say it is a possibility, though it is quite unlikely, because anyone who has read any of my work knows that I suck as my own editor, since I tend to add things rather than take them out. Like this post, for instance. It was initially going to be a two-sentence post, just to say "thanks" to you and canadianspankee for pointing out these numerical statistics to me. I wasn't going to even mention the correlation between spankos and statistics, like our standard deviation (of which all us spankos are guilty of - unlike say, excessive deviation), or statistical variables (F/M, M/F, FF/M, M/ff, m/f, f/m, WTF etc.) which pervade, if not pervert, the spanking library. I really wasn't going to mention them, and wouldn't have, if I was a good editor of my own work.
Oddly, I have no problem editing OTHER people's stories. I can easily whittle those down to a paragraph or two. Go figure. |